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SO MUCH BAGGAGE: Minimum Wage Effort Sends 93.3% to Out-of-State Consultants
Colorado Families for a Fair Wage, the issue committee pushing the minimum wage hike on Colorado, should be renamed "D.C. Consultants for Exorbitant Fees" for accuracy's sake. When a loyal reader sent us the photo below of one of the minimum wage ballot measure...
SUE ‘EM! Navajo’s Mine Spill Lawsuit Expected to Spill into Election
The Navajo Nation will announce their lawsuit against the EPA today for the massive spill the federal agency triggered last year at the Gold King Mine. This is not really news to PeakNation™, who has followed the disaster since we first broke the news that the EPA...
FORGED? Minimum Wage Ballot Signers Called Into Question
Marshall Zelinger on the petition forgery beat for Channel 7 reports that the attorney’s general office is investigating whether signatures gathered for the minimum wage hike ballot initiative were falsified. We are not handwriting experts, but after looking at the...
NO MONEY FOR YOU: EPA Holding Out on Animas Spill Claims
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, remember when the EPA promised they would take responsibility for their disastrous mine water spill into the Animas River? Not only are the feds desperately trying to shift responsibility for the actual spill, they have...
COLORADO GETS THE BIRD: Gunnison Sage Grouse Plans Will Cripple Us
The feds have finally released environmentalists’ their proposed plan to shut down energy development, grazing, and roads in Colorado, also known as the new Gunnison sage grouse management plans. In addition to crippling energy and grazing in one fell swoop, the new...
DAMAGE CONTROL: Food and Water Watch Wrongly Blames Bartels
Lynn Bartels is being unfairly criticized for tweeting a picture of the boxes trucked over to the Secretary of State’s office presumably filled with anti-fracking petitions, which showed that many were empty. Fractivists are blaming her for exposing their fraud,...
NO DEBATE, NO PEACE: CD-1 Candidate’s Sit-in at Degette Office Today
Casper Stockham, Republican candidate for Colorado's First Congressional District, isn't getting any love from twenty-year incumbent Democrat Dianna DeGette. In fact, she won't agree to even face him in a debate. Team Casper has reached out to DeGette numerous times...
“GAINFUL” EMPLOYMENT: Senate District 25 Dem Candidate Jenise May Reminds Everyone of Shady Deal
The saga of the Jenise May revolving door continues. She unwisely went on the record with the Colorado Independent this week to talk about the disastrous meltdown that occurred at the Capitol last year, and reminded us all about some of the worst backroom deals that...
GASP: Hillary’s Short List for Interior is Our Worst Nightmare
Always the bridesmaid but never the bride, Gov. Hickenlooper is once again being courted by the Clinton cartel and his name is being dropped in Beltway circles as a contender for the Interior secretary post, Politico is reporting. This doesn’t come as a surprise to...
BOXGATE SPINS OUT OF CONTROL: Enviros Now Claim They Don’t Want Fracking on the Ballot
Environmentalists are so embarrassed after getting busted for their bogus publicity stunt — turning in a barrage of nearly empty boxes on the deadline to deliver anti-fracking signatures — they have little choice but to humiliate themselves further. Led by Food and...